All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition of The Big Ben Show.

I'm your host, Ben Domenech.

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magazine, The Spectator at The Spectator.com. And I want to talk to you for a minute about

summer vacations. I know that everyone vacations a little bit differently, but for me, it goes

something like this. Jerry Seinfeld doing Louis C.K.

Okay.

So I'm going on my vacation with my wife, my family pack up the car and the kids, and I'm clicking

in the car seats, and I put the wife in, and I get everything set.

And it's such, it's so much work to get a family in a car.

I close the door for my wife on the passenger side. I walk around to the driver's

side. That's my vacation. Tetrising the back of the Tahoe and getting it on the road for the

nearly seven hour long trip to the beach that we take every summer is something of a challenge for me,

particularly with two young girls, a pregnant wife, and all of the hassle of the things that get forgotten

and that you have to turn around and get and pick up and the stops that you have to make and everything else like that.

This time around, our vacation was going pretty smoothly.

But I have this attitude towards vacation that anticipates they're always going to be cursed in one way or another.

Certain events have happened in the past when we've gone to the beach.

Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago was raided,

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